Episode 71: Embrace Your Role as the Underdog - with Zachary Babcock

Real Business Owners

Trevor Cowley

Business

5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Zachary Babcock is an ex-con turned entrepreneur and the owner of Underdog Empowerment. He’s made it his mission to help entrepreneurs launch, grow and monetize top-shelf podcasts.

In this episode, we talk with Zach about his story, powering through super dark times, and how he beat the odds in overcoming his “identity” as a criminal.

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0:00.0	Real Business Owners.
0:03.2	Welcome back to the Real Business Owners podcast.
0:05.7	This is episode 71 with myself, Trevor Cowley.
0:09.0	As always, we got Keelow G.
0:10.8	What's up?
0:11.6	And today, guys, we have a special guest for you.
0:14.5	He's an Arate brother of ours involved in the Aratee Syndicate with Ed Milet and Andy Fursella.
0:20.7	Obviously, that group's grown quite a bit over the last year and two.
0:25.0	But we've got Zach Babcock with us on the podcast. Welcome, bro. We're happy to have you, dude.
0:30.4	Thanks for having me. It's a dope setup you guys. Yeah, thank you. I'm excited to jam.
0:34.2	Yeah, well, it takes about a decade plus to build something like this and, you know, a lot of stress and a lot of sacrifice, that's for sure. So we're happy to be in the position we're in, though. So and be where we're at and we're lucky to have what we have. And, you know, the idea is to continue to try to grow, grow, grow, grow, grow, grow headaches means grow, grow,
0:55.4	grow paychecks.
0:56.5	So we deal with a lot of the headaches, too.
0:59.0	More money, more props.
0:59.7	You know, I just got a direct message right before we hopped on and somebody's like, hey,
1:04.2	I have a landscape company that's starting to grow and I might sell it and then start
1:07.8	a second one from scratch because I know when you grow there's going to be
1:11.2	more headaches. And I said, well, there's going to be headaches when you start from scratch too,
1:14.8	bro. Either way, there's headaches. You might as well deal with the growth. He's like trying to game
1:20.7	the game. He's like, maybe I'll just stay right here. But then I'll just like, sell out of here and there. The two to three year mark and then sell two to three years.
1:28.5	I'm like, usually the first couple of years are the biggest pain in the ass, you know,
1:32.7	and then you kind of find your rhythm and then can actually start making money.
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